New job listings reveal that Apple is looking to hire at least ten new software engineers to join its iOS Maps team as it works to significantly improve the mapping service.

New job listings reveal that Apple is looking to hire at least ten new software engineers to join its iOS Maps team as it works to significantly improve the mapping service.

The positions, all of which are located in Apple's Cupertino, California HQ, were posted on Apple's Jobs site on 4 February, and include nine iOS Software Engineers that will contribute to various iOS Maps features, and one engineer who will focus on Maps navigation.

Among the iOS Maps features mentioned as areas of focus in the jobs listings are road labels and points of interest, 3D Flyover and rendering, performance, user interface, Siri integration and the MapKit framework.

When Apple introduced its new Maps with iOS 6 in September, it was greeted by wide criticism for its inaccuracies, poor quality imagery, lack of transit directions and more, which led Cook to issue a public apology, and admit "we screwed up". Cook said that Apple's Maps would improve with time as users reported problems, but advised users to turn to Microsoft's Bing, Google's Maps, or other mapping services in the meantime.